Video: 'The 100 Deadliest Days of the Holocaust Begin... - WAH 039 - July 1942, Pt .2' (July 22, 1942, at 4:18)

(Wednesday, July 22, 1942, “resettlement” ordered to begin at 11:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began today as the German SS, headed by the “Resettlement Commissioner” Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, called a meeting of the Ghetto Jewish Council Judenrat and informed its leader Adam Czerniaków about the “resettlement to the East.” Continue reading Nazis begin transporting Jews from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka death camp 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 22 1942) →

Video: 'The 100 Deadliest Days of the Holocaust Begin... - WAH 039 - July 1942, Pt .2' (Himmler at Auschwitz, July 17-18, 1942, at 2:28)

(Friday, July 17, 1942, late afternoon Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust, during World War II) — Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany’s Minister of the Interior, began a two-day visit to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp today in Nazi-occupied Poland, his second and final visit to the facility that would witness the murders of 1.3 million people, about 90 percent of them Jewish, through 1945. Continue reading Top Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler begins two-day visit at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 17 1942) →

Video: 'Return to Rivne'

(Monday, July 13, 1942, 10:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Rovno Ghetto, a World War II Nazi ghetto established in December 1941 in the city of Rovno, western Ukraine, in the territory of German-administered Reichskommissariat Ukraine, was liquidated tonight when a “shared” division of the SS and Ukrainian police units surrounded the ghetto, positioned spotlights around it and turned them on. Continue reading Nazis liquidate Rovno Ghetto in Ukraine, 5,000 Jews taken to nearby forest and shot 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 13 1942) →

Video: 'Anne Frank - Lembrada - Legendado' (July 6, 1942, at 24:18)

(Monday, July 6, 1942, 7:30 a.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — One day after Margot Frank, a 16-year-old Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland, received a call-up notice to report to a work camp in Germany, the Frank family (Anne, 13, and her parents, Otto and Edith), went into hiding today in rooms above and behind the premesis of her father’s business in Amsterdam, where some of his most trusted employees would help them survive. Continue reading Anne Frank’s family takes refuge in ‘Secret Annex’ of Amsterdam warehouse to hide from Nazi occupiers 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1942) →

Video: 'Anne Frank - Lembrada - Legendado' (July 5, 1942, at 22:55)

(Sunday, July 5, 1942, 3:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust , part of World War II) — Margot Frank, the 16-year-old sister of Anne Frank, 13, received a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor today from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) at their Amsterdam apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in Nazi-occupied Holland. Continue reading Margot Frank, Anne Frank’s elder sister, receives call-up notice to report for deportation to forced-labor camp 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1942) →

Video: 'AUSCHWITZ ,THE NAZIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION'

(Saturday, June 20, 1942, morning Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Kazimierz Piechowski, who was among Polish Boy Scouts sent to the camp as political prisoners in 1940, and three other inmates (Stanislaw Gustaw Jaster, Józef Lempart, and Eugeniusz Bendera), conducted a daring escape today from Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) of the Nazi death camp in Oswiecim. Continue reading Kazimierz Piechowski, three other prisoners escape Auschwitz death camp 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 20 1942) →